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Niantic plans a “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data

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430 points bookstore-romeo | 2 comments | 19 Nov 24 20:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.633s | source
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CaptainFever ◴[20 Nov 24 22:07 UTC] No.42198606[source]▶
This title is editorialized. The real title is: "Building a Large Geospatial Model to Achieve Spatial Intelligence"

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

My personal layman's opinion:

I'm mostly surprised that they were able to do this. When I played Pokémon GO a few years back, the AR was so slow that I rarely used it. Apparently it's so popular and common, it can be used to train an LGM?

I also feel like this is a win-win-win situation here, economically. Players get a free(mium) game, Niantic gets a profit, the rest of the world gets a cool new technology that is able to turn "AR glasses location markers" into reality. That's awesome.

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1. PittleyDunkin ◴[21 Nov 24 04:12 UTC] No.42201035[source]▶
> the rest of the world gets a cool new technology

The rest of the world gets an opportunity to purchase access to said new technology, you mean! It's not like they're releasing how they generated the models. It's much more difficult to get excited about paid-access to technology than it is about access to tech itself.

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2. CaptainFever ◴[21 Nov 24 17:41 UTC] No.42206679[source]▶
True, true, but they can still purchase it. I mentioned that it's a win-win-win situation, which includes Niantic profiting too (not a bad thing, it's a good incentive), which entails selling access to it.

Though as a copyright reformist, I do believe that such models should be released as public domain after 14 years. Though the cloud thing does make these sort of obligations harder to enforce...